Re: No more BASIC for MAC?

[Jon Bell <jtbell@cs1.presby.edu>]

 Richard W. Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU> wrote:
> For the Mac--smooth animations almost require that you buy into the Apple
> Developers group, work in their version of Pascal, 

"Small" correction... Apple abandoned Pascal several years ago.  They now
provide only C, C++, and assembly language (both 68K and PowerPC) in their
"E.T.O." programming tools package.  Fortner Research (formerly known as
Language Systems) sells a PowerMac-native Pascal compiler.

> and purchase the reams
> of documentation on the tool-box.  No third party has yet been allowed to
> incorporate those routines into their language and hence to do anything
> 'slick' you have to make numerous calls to these ROM routines.  

Even if you use Apple's own compilers, you still have to make calls to 
the ROM routines.  There is no difference between Apple's compilers and 
third-party compilers in that respect.

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Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu>                        Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science        Clinton, South Carolina USA